I have a text file called as sample.txt. The file looks like:
abc,23,M
def,25,F
efg,25,F
I am trying to create a table in hive using:
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE ppldb(name string, age int,gender string)
ROW FORMAT
DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
STORED AS TEXTFILE
LOCATION '/path/to/sample.txt';
But the data isn't getting into the table. When I run the query:
select count(*) from ppldb
I get 0 in output.
What could be the reason for data not getting loaded into the table?
The location in a external table in Hive should be an HDFS directory and not the full path of the file.
If that directory does not exists then the location we give will be created automatically. In your case /path/to/sample.txt is being treated as a directory.
So just give the /path/to/ in the LOCATION and keep the sample.txt file inside the directory. It will work.
Hope it helps...!!!
the LOCATION clause indicates where the table will be stored, not where to retrieve data from. After moving the samples.txt file into hdfs with something like
hdfs dfs -copyFromLocal ~/samples.txt /user/tables/
you could load the data into a table in hive with
create table temp(name string, age int, gender string)
row format delimited fields terminated by ','
stored as textfile;
load data inpath '/user/tables/samples.txt' into table temp;
That should work
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I have a file where all the column delimiters at Notepad++ are shown as EOT, SOH, ETX, ACK, BEL, BS, ENQ
I know the schema of the table but I am totally new at these technologies and I cannot load the file to the table. Can I do it through UI like CSV file, and if yes with what delimiter?
Thank you in advance for your help.
It is pretty easy as you have mentioned the file is "," saparated.
lets create a simple table with 1 column.
CREATE TABLE test1(col1 STRING);
Row format delimited
Fields terminated by ',';
Please note statement Fields terminated by ',' we have given fields are saparated by "," if it columns are saparated by tab we can change it to "\t"
once the table is create we can load the file using the below commands.
If File is on local file system
LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '<complete_local_file_path>' INTO table test1;
If File is in HDFS
LOAD DATA INPATH '<complete_HDFS_file_path>' INTO table test1;
Hive is just an abstraction layer over HDFS, so you would add the file to HDFS in some folder, then build an EXTERNAL TABLE;over top of it
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE name(...)
STORED AS TEXT
LINE FORMAT DELIMITED
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
LOCATION '/path/to/folder/'
;
Can I do it through UI like CSV file
If you install HUE, then you could
I'm using Hive to process my CSV files. I've stored CSV files in HDFS and wanna create tables from those files.
I use the following command:
create external table if not exists csv_table (dummy STRING)
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
STORED AS TEXTFILE
LOCATION 'hdfs://localhost:9000/user/hive'
TBLPROPERTIES ("skip.header.line.count"="1");
LOAD DATA INPATH '/CsvData/csv_table.csv' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE csv_table;
So the file under /CsvData will be moved into /user/hive. It makes sense.
But how if I want to create another table?
create external table if not exists csv_table2 (dummy STRING)
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
STORED AS TEXTFILE
LOCATION 'hdfs://localhost:9000/user/hive'
TBLPROPERTIES ("skip.header.line.count"="1");
LOAD DATA INPATH '/CsvData/csv_table2.csv' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE csv_table2;
It will raise an exception complaining that the directory is not empty.
ERROR : FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MoveTask. Directory hdfs://localhost:9000/user/hive could not be cleaned up.
So it is hard for me to understand, does it mean I can store only one file understand one directory? To store multiple files I have to create one directory for every file?
Is it possible to store all the files together?
Create table sentence will NOT raise an exception complaining that the directory is not empty because it is quite normal scenario when you create table on top of existing directory.
You can store as many files in the directory as necessary. And all of them will be accessible to the table built on top of the folder.
Table location is directory, not file. If you need to create new table and keep it's files not mixed with other table then create separate folder.
Read also this answer for clear understanding: https://stackoverflow.com/a/54038932/2700344
I have a csv file called test.csv in hdfs. The file was placed there through filezilla. I am able to view the path as well as the contents of the file when I log in to Edge node through putty using the same account credentials that I used to place the file into hdfs. I then connect to Hive and try to create an external table specifying the location of my csv file in hdfs using the statement below:
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE(col1 string, col2 string) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' STORED AS ORC LOCATION '/file path'
when I execute this command it is creating an external table on hive but the table that is being created is empty with only the columns showing up which i have already mentioned in the create statement. My question is, am I specifying the correct path in the location parameter in the create statement above? I tried using the path which I see on filezilla when I placed my csv file into hdfs which is in the format home/servername/username/directory/subdirectory/file
but this returns an error saying the user whose username is specified in the path above does not have ALL privileges on the file path.
NOTE: I checked the permissions on the file and the directory in which it resides and the user has all permissions(read,write and execute).
I then tried changing the path into the format user/username/directory/subdirectory/file and when I did this I was able to create the external table however the table is empty and does not load all the data in the csv file on which it was created.
I also tried the alternative method of creating an internal table as below and then using the LOAD DATA INPATH command. But this also failed as I am getting an error saying that "there are no files existing at the specified path".
CREATE TABLE foobar(key string, stats map<string, bigint>)
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
COLLECTION ITEMS TERMINATED BY '|'
MAP KEYS TERMINATED BY ':' ;
LOAD DATA INPATH '/tmp/foobar.csv' INTO TABLE foobar;
First thing you can't load csv file directly into Hive table which is specified with orc file format while creating. Orc is a compression technique to store data in optimised way. So you can load your data into orc format table by following below steps.
You should create a temp table as text file format.
Load data into it by using the command.
hive> load data in path.....
or else u can use location parameter while creating the table itself.
Now create a hive table as your required file format (RC, ORC, parquet, etc).
-Now load data into it by using following command.
hive> insert overwrite into table foobar as select * from temptbl;
You will get table in orc file format.
In second issue is if you Load data into the table by using LOAD DATA command, the data which is in your file will become empty and new dir will be created in default location (/user/hive/warehouse/) with the table name and data will moved into that file. So check in that location you will see the data.
I completed my hadoop course now I want to work on Hadoop. I want to know the workflow from data ingestion to visualize the data.
I am aware of how eco system components work and I have built hadoop cluster with 8 datanodes and 1 namenode:
1 namenode --Resourcemanager,Namenode,secondarynamenode,hive
8 datanodes--datanode,Nodemanager
I want to know the following things:
I got data .tar structured files and first 4 lines have got description.how to process this type of data im little bit confused.
1.a Can I directly process the data as these are tar files.if its yes how to remove the data in the first four lines should I need to untar and remove the first 4 lines
1.b and I want to process this data using hive.
Please suggest me how to do that.
Thanks in advance.
Can I directly process the data as these are tar files.
Yes, see the below solution.
if yes, how to remove the data in the first four lines
Starting Hive v0.13.0, There is a table property, tblproperties ("skip.header.line.count"="1") while creating a table to tell Hive the number of rows to ignore. To ignore first four lines - tblproperties ("skip.header.line.count"="4")
CREATE TABLE raw (line STRING)
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n';
CREATE TABLE raw_sequence (line STRING)
STORED AS SEQUENCEFILE
tblproperties("skip.header.line.count"="4");
LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '/tmp/test.tar' INTO TABLE raw;
SET hive.exec.compress.output=true;
SET io.seqfile.compression.type=BLOCK; -- NONE/RECORD/BLOCK (see below)
INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE raw_sequence SELECT * FROM raw;
To view the data:
select * from raw_sequence
Reference: Compressed Data Storage
Follow the below steps to achieve your goal:
Copy the data(ie.tar file) to the client system where hadoop is installed.
Untar the file and manually remove the description and save it in local.
Create the metadata(i.e table) in hive based on the description.
Eg: If the description contains emp_id,emp_no,etc.,then create table in hive using this information and also make note of field separator used in the data file and use the corresponding field separator in create table query. Assumed that file contains two columns which is separated by comma then below is the syntax to create the table in hive.
Create table tablename (emp_id int, emp_no int)
Row Format Delimited
Fields Terminated by ','
Since, data is in structured format, you can load the data into hive table using the below command.
LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '/LOCALFILEPATH' INTO TABLE TABLENAME.
Now, local data will be moved to hdfs and loaded into hive table.
Finally, you can query the hive table using SELECT * FROM TABLENAME;
I am running the following commands to create my table ABC and insert data from all files that are in my designated file path. Now I want to add a column with filename, but I can't find any way to do that without looping through the files or something. Any suggestions on what the best way to do this would be?
CREATE TABLE ABC
(NAME string
,DATE string
)
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED
FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t'
STORED AS TEXTFILE;
hive -e "LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '${DATA_FILE_PATH}' INTO TABLE ABC;"
Hive does have virtual columns, which include INPUT__FILE__NAME. The link shows how to use this in a statement.
To fill another table with the filename as a column. Assuming your location of your data is hdfs://hdfs.location:port/data/folder/filename1
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS ABC2;
CREATE TABLE ABC2 (
filename STRING COMMENT 'this is the file the row was in',
name STRING,
date STRING);
INSERT INTO TABLE ABC2 SELECT split(INPUT__FILE__NAME,'folder/')[1],* FROM ABC;
You can alter the split to change how much of the full path you actually want to store.